Yoko Ono Quotes

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

I always go for simplicity.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Simplicity!

I just make my music. It's not too complicated.

I think the simpler the better.

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

To be simple is no small matter.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

Each time I’m coming out of my apartment I remember the quote of Coco Chanel; she said, ‘Each time I’m leaving my apartment or my hotel, I’m looking at myself in the mirror and I take off one piece of my look. It’s always one thing too much.’ And it’s a bit the same, always I take off my scarf or I take off my bag or jewellery because I like it simple. Coco Chanel is a great consultant I think.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

All the great things are simple.

I think I generally try to buy the best quality and keep it simple. I don't try to make too many decorations, too many things with it.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.

I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.